Warming essential oil blend

What

Counteract the first cold days with the warming essential oils, here for you a special blend that you can create by yourself at home.

How

Rain, wind and cold, autumn is coming with the sensation to feel chill also in the bones. Hot herbal teas and high-energy foods are helpful but an aid may come also from the essential oils. Today we will see how to create by ourselves a special essential oil blend in order to diffuse in the rooms of houses or offices sweet, scented and warming notes, able to counteract the chill sensation and to make us feel comfortable, at peace and protect. Let’s see how to prepare a warming essential oil blend! This blend is thought to be added to an oil burner lamp, it is better not to use it in the water bath or to apply it on your skin in order to avoid possible skin irritations. Be careful also during pregnancy, some used essential oils, such that of cinnamon, may cause contractions, for this reason it is better not to use during this period.

Sweet orange

Add 8 drops of sweet orange essential oil, an essence that has a calming effect, gives serenity and has an anti-stress action (Rashidi-Fakari et al, Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res, Nov-Dec 2015). This essential oil is also very delicate and helps balance the blend. The more warming essential oils, indeed, such as that of spices that we will see in the following, are very strong and, in order to avoid irritations of mucosa, it should be better not to diffuse them in excessive quantities.

Rosewood

Add 4 drops of rosewood essential oil, that mixes well with spicy essential oils thanks to its woody, warm and sweet note. This essential oil is really special because it isn’t just warming but it has also an antimicrobial activity, one of the most active, an anti-inflammatory and anxiolytic effect (Vasireddy et al, PLoS One, Aug 2018 - Rita de Cássia da Silveira e Sá et al, Int J Mol Sci, Dec 2017).